Fort Espérance, Trading post and national historic site in Rocanville No. 151, Canada.

Fort Espérance sits along the Qu'Appelle River with the remains of two fur trading posts from the late 1700s and early 1800s. Visitors can see exposed cellar foundations, fireplace structures, and other archaeological features from the original buildings.

Robert Grant of the North West Company established Fort Espérance in 1787 on the south bank of the Qu'Appelle River. The post was moved three times: to a Qu'Appelle lake around 1810, to the north bank in 1814 where it was renamed Fort John, and in 1816 to a hill on the south bank. It closed in 1819, and in 1821 its remains were taken over by the Hudson's Bay Company's Beaver Creek House.

The name Espérance, French for hope, was given by the North West Company; the post was renamed Fort John from 1814 to 1816. A competing XY Company post stood a mile downriver on the south bank from 1801 to 1805, and a Hudson's Bay Company post operated nearby from 1813 to 1816. Visitors can look for surface traces of collapsed cellars and stone piles from fallen chimneys at the 1816 hilltop location.

The site is free to visit and open to self-guided exploration of the ruins. Bring appropriate clothing for weather conditions and allow time to walk the grounds and view the different sections of the archaeological site.

The protected site covers 24.3 hectares, but the core archaeological reserve is only 1.4 hectares. It holds three separate fort locations plus a butchering site where local Indigenous people killed, cut up and preserved bison. At the 1816 hillside location, collapsed cellars and piles of stone from fallen chimneys are still visible at the surface.